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FOUR BEAUTIFUL BOOKS OF IDEAL 
THOUGHTS 

By the compilers of " Borrowings" 
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To My Friend: 

I would flood your path with sunshine; I 

would fence you from all ill; 
I "would crown you with all blessings, if I 

could but have my will; 
Aye! but human love may err, dear, and a 

power all wise is near ; 
So I only pray, God bless you, and God keep 

you through the year. 




FOR EVERY DAY 




UST to be good, to keep 
life pure from degrad- 
ing elements, to make it 
constantly helpful in 
little ways to those who 
are touched by it, to keep one's spirit 
always sweet and avoid all manner of 
petty anger and irritability, — that is 
an ideal as noble as it is difficult. 

— Edward Howard Griggs. 



FOR EVERY DAY 




HAVE never had a 
policy. I have simply 
tried to do what seemed 
best each day, as each 
day came. 

— Lincoln. 



io STRENGTH 

Half the world is on the wrong scent in 
the pursuit of happiness. They think it con- 
sists in having and getting, and in being 
served by others. It consists in giving and 
in serving others. — Henry Drummond. 



The grand essentials of happiness are, 
something to do, something to love, and 
something to hope for. — Chalmers. 



Let us be content, in work, to do the 
thing we CAN and not presume to fret because 
it's little. — E. B. Browning. 



Every duty we omit obscures some truth 
we should have known. — Ruskin. 



Our friends see the best in us, and by 
that very fact call forth the best from us. 

*— Black. 



FOR EVERY DAY n 

Aggressive fighting for the right is the 
greatest sport the world knows. 

— Theodore Roosevelt. 

Never hunt trouble. However dead a 
shot one may be, the gun he carries on such 
expeditions is sure to kick, or go off half- 
cocked. — Artemus Ward. 

A man who lives right, and is right, has 
more power in his silence than another has 
by his words. Character is like bells which 
ring out sweet music, and which, when 
touched accidentally even, resound with 
sweet music. — Phillips Brooks. 

Let us have faith that right makes might; 
and in that faith let us dare to do our duty 
as we understand it. — Lincoln. 

Every man feels instinctively that all 
the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh 
less than a single lovely action. 

— Lowell. 



12 STRENGTH 



Honest men esteem and value nothing 
so much in this world as a real friend. Such 
a one is as it were another self, to whom we 
impart our most secret thoughts, who par- 
takes of our joy, and comforts us in our 
affliction ; add to this, that his company is 
an everlasting pleasure to us. — Pilpay. 

The making of friends, who are real 
friends, is the best token we have of a man's 
success in life. Edward Everett Hale. 

Wanting to have a friend is altogether 
different from wanting to be a friend. The 
former is a mere natural human craving, the 
latter is the life of Christ in the soul. 

—J. R. Miller. 

If a man does not make new acquaint- 
ances as he advances through life, he will 
soon find himself alone. A man, sir, should 
keep his friendships in constant repair. 

— Dr. yohnson. 

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in 
every place, as if you meant to spend your 
life there, never omitting an opportunity of 
doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or 
making a friend. — Ruskin, 



FOR EVERY DAY 



13 




ETTER to work and fail 
than to sleep one's life 
away. 

— J. K. Jerome, 



14 STRENGTH 



I was walking in the street ... a beggar 
stopped me, — a frail old man. 

His inflamed, tearful eyes, blue lips, 
rough rags, disgusting sores . . . oh, how 
horribly poverty had disfigured the unhappy 
creature ! 

He stretched out to me his red, swollen, 
filthy hand ... he groaned and whimpered 
for alms. 

I felt in all my pockets ... no purse, 
watch, or handkerchief did I find. I had 
left them all at home. 

The beggar waited . . . and his out- 
stretched hand twitched and trembled 
slightly. 

Embarrassed and confused, I seized his 
dirty hand and pressed it . . . "Don't be vexed 
with me, brother ; I have nothing with me, 
brother." 

The beggar raised his bloodshot eyes to 
mine ; his blue lips smiled, and he returned 
the pressure of my chilled fingers. 

"Never mind, brother," stammered he ; 
"thank you for this — this, too, was a gift, 
brother." 

I felt that I, too, had received a gift from 
my brother. — Ivan Tourgueneff, 



FOR EVERY DAY 



15 



»HALL pass through 
this world but once. Any 
[good thing therefore that 
I can do, or any kindness 
^that I can show to any 
Luman being, let me do 
it now. Let me not defer it or neglect 
it, for I shall not pass this way again. 

— A. B. Hegetnan. 




16 STRENGTH 



Good taste is essentially a moral quality. 
Taste is not only a part and an index of 
morality — it is the only morality. The first, 
last, and closest trial question to any living 
creature is, " What do you like ? " — and the 
entire object of true education is to make 
people not merely do right things, but 
enjoy the right things. What we like deter- 
mines what we are, and is the sign of what 
we are ; and to teach taste is inevitably to 
form character. 

— Ruskin. 



FOR EVERYDAY 17 

It is not required of every man and 
woman to be or to do something great ; most 
of us must content ourselves with taking 
small parts in the chorus, as far as possible 
without discord. Henry Van Dyke. 

It is better to go down on the great seas 
which human hearts were made to sail than 
to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage. 

— Hamilton W. Mabie. 

If to do were as easy as to know what 
were good to do, chapels had been churches, 
and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. 

— Shakespeare. 

The most fortunate men and women are 
those who have "worthy work to do and who 
do it because they love it. 

— G. Bate be lor. 

Free men freely work. Whoever fears 
God fears to sit at ease. — E. B. Browning. 



18 STRENGTH 

New occasions teach new duties. 

— Lowell. 

If you've any debt to pay, 

Rest you neither night nor day : 
Pay it. 

Circumstances are the rulers of the 
weak ; they are but the instruments of the 
wise. — Samuel Lover. 

Think of living! Thy life, wert thou the 
pitifullest of all the sons of earth, is no idle 
dream, but a solemn reality. It is thy own. 
It is all thou hast to front eternity with. 
Work then, even as He has done, and does, 
like a star, unhasting yet unresting. 

— Thomas Carlyle. 

No pain, no palm ; no thorns, no throne; 
no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. 

— William Penn. 



FOR EVERY DAY 19 



Our doubts are traitors, 
And make us lose the good we oft might win, 
By fearing to attempt. — Shakespeare. 



That low man seeks a little thing to do, 

Sees it and does it ; 
This high man, with a great thing to pursue, 

Dies ere he knows it. 
That low man goes on adding one to one — 

His hundred's soon hit ; 
This high man, aiming at a million, 

Misses an unit. 
That has the world here — should he need the 
next, 

Let the world mind him ! 
This throws himself on God, and unperplexed 

Seeking shall find him. 

— Robert Browning. 



So let my past stand just as it stands, 
And let me now, as I may grow old. 

I am what I am, and my life for me 
Is the best, or it had not been, I hold. 

— P. Carey. 



20 STRENGTH 



I am glad to think 

I am not bound to make the wrong go right, 
But only to discover and to do, 
With cheerful heart, the work that God 
appoints. Jean Inge low. 



We need, each and all, to be needed, 
To feel we have something to give 
T owards soothingthe moan of earth's hunger 

And we know that then only we live 
When we feed one another as we have been 

fed, 
From the hand that gives body and spirit 
their bread. — Lucy Larcom. 



FOR EVERY DAY 21 

Reputation is what men and women 
think of us ; character is what God and the 
angels know of us. — Thomas Paine. 

It's easy finding reasons why other folks 
should be patient. — George Eliot. 

A waistcoat of broadcloth or of fustian 
is alike to an aching heart, and we laugh no 
merrier on velvet cushions than we did on 
wooden chairs. — J. K. Jerome. 

The nature which is all wood and straw 
is of no use ; if we are to do well, we must 
have some iron in us. — Canon Farrar. 



Some of your griefs you have cured, 
And the sharpest you still have survived; 

But what torments of pain you endured 
From evils that never arrived. 



22 STRENGTH 

Swift kindnesses are best ; a long delay 
in kindness takes the kindness all away. 



It is not how great a thing we do, but 
how well we do the things we haVe to do, 
that puts us in the noble brotherhood of 
artists. 



Only the new days are our own ; 
To-day is ours, and to-day alone. 



Seize what you can ; the times are hard ; one 

needs 
To snatch enjoyment nimbly while it passes. 

— Schiller. 



We sleep, but the loom of life never 
stops ; and the pattern which was weaving 
when the sun went down is weaving when 
it comes up to-morrow. — Beecher. 



FOR EVERY DAY 23 

Go, put your creed into your deed, 
Nor speak with double tongue. 

— Emerson. 



Disappointment, ailment, or even 
weather depresses us; and our look Or tone 
of depression hinders others from maintain- 
ing a cheerful and thankful spirit. We say 
an unkind thing, and another is hindered in 
learning the holy lesson of charity that think- 
eth no evil. We say a provoking thing, and 
our sister or brother is hindered in that day's 
effort to be meek. How sadly, too, we may 
hinder without word or act ! For wrong 
feeling is more infectious than wrong doing ; 
especially the various phases of ill temper — 
gloominess, touchiness, discontent, irrita- 
bility. Do we not know how catching these 
are ? — Frances Ridley Havergal. 

What makes life dreary is want of 
motive. — George Eliot. 



24 STRENGTH 

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, 

So near is God to man, 
"When Duty whispers low, Thou must, 

The youth replies, I can ! 

— Emerson. 

If we want light, we must conquer dark- 
ness. —J. T. Fields, 

He who is false to present duty breaks a 
thread in the loom, and will find the flaw 
when he may have forgotten its cause. 

— Beecher. 

A wrong-doer is often a man that has 
left something undone, not always he that 
has done something. — Marcus Aurelius. 

Whatever the number of a man's friends, 
there will be times in his life when he has 
one too few ; but if he has only one enemy, 
he is lucky indeed, if he has not one too 
many. — Bulwer. 



FOR EVERY DAY 25 

Lincoln's heart was as great as the 
world, but there was no room in it to hold 
the memory of a wrong. — Emerson. 



Who upon earth could live were all 
judged justly? — Bunyan. 



Hate of one will affect our attitude to- 
ward all. — Black. 



We pardon in the degree that we love. 



Much of our dissension is due to mis- 
understanding, which could be put right by 
a few honest words and a little open dealing. 

—Black. 



26 S T R E N GT H 

The test of your Christian character 
should be that you are a joy-bearing agent to 
the world. — Beecher. 



Happiness is where it is found, and sel- 
dom where it is sought. 



If you ever find happiness by hunting 
for it, you will find it, as the, old woman did 
her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all 
the time. — Josh Billings. 



If a man is unhappy this must be his 
own fault ; for God made all men to be happy. 

— Epictetus. 



To carry care to bed is to sleep with a 
pack on your back. — Haliburton. 



FOREVERYDAY 27 



" Stay at home," said Inclination, 

" Let the errand wait." 
" Go at once ! " said Duty, firmly, 

" Or you'll be too late." 

" But it snows," said Inclination, 

"And the wind is keen." 
" Never mind all that," said Duty : 

" Go and brave it, Jean." 

Jean stepped out into the garden, 

Looked up at the sky, 
Clouded, shrouded, dreary, sunless, 

Snow unceasingly. 

"Stay!" again said Inclination, 

"Go!" said Duty, "Go!" 
Forth went Jean with no more waiting, 

Forth into the snow. 

You will smile if now I tell you, 

That this quiet strife, 
Duty conquering Inclination, 

Strengthened all her life. 

Sometimes on a little skirmish 

Hangs a nation's fate. 
Very much hung on that skirmish 

At the garden gate. 



28 STRENGTH 



The weakest among us has a gift. 



Do not be troubled because you have not 
great virtues. God made a million spears 
of grass when He made one tree. 

— Beecher. 



There are thousands willing to do great 
things for one willing to do a small thing. 

— George MacDonald. 



No one is useless in the world who 
lightens the burden of it for anyone else. 

— Dickens, 



"A commonplace life," we say, and we sigh; 

But why should we sigh as we say ? 
The commonplace sun in the common- 
place sky, 

Makes up the commonplace day. 



FOREVERYDAY 29 

No one knows what he can do till he tries. 

— Publius Syrus, 



No simplest duty is forgot, 
Life has no dim and lonely spot 
That doth no^ in her sunshine share. 

— Lowell. 



Every duty we omit obscures some truth 
we should have known. — Ruskin. 



Try to be happy in this present moment, 
and put not off being so to a time to come ; 
as though that time should be of another 
make from this, which has already come, 
and is sure. — T. Fuller. 



Every brave heart must treat society as 
a child, and never allow it to dictate. 

— Emerson. 



30 STRENGTH 

To say well is good, but to do well is better. 
Do well is the spirit, and say well, the letter. 



Every person is responsible for all the 
good within the scope of his abilities, and for 
no more. — Gail Hamilton. 



Talking is like playing the harp. There 
is as much in laying the hand on the strings 
to stop their vibrations as in twanging them 
to bring out the music. — Holmes. 



If we have not quiet in our minds, out- 
ward comfort will do no more for us than i 
golden slipper on a gouty foot. — Bunyan. 



Be not simply good — be good for some 
thing. — Thoreau. 



FOR EVERY DAY 31 

Every day should be passed as if it were 
to be our last. — Publius Syrus. 

Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer; 
Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; 
Thus on, till wisdom is pushed out of life. 
Procrastination is the thief of time ; 
Year after year it steals, till all are fled, 
And to the mercies of a moment leaves 
The vast concerns of an eternal scene. 

— Edward Young. 

If any man can convince me and bring 
home to me that I do not think or act aright, 
gladly will I change ; for I search after truth, 
by which man never yet was harmed. But 
he is harmed who abideth on still in his 
deception and ignorance. 

— -Marcus Aurelius. 

A man is helpless and unsafe up to the 
measure of his ignorance. — M. F. Tupper. 



32 STRENGTH 



Soul, in thine Autumn days have utmost 
cheer ! 
Spring hath no flower of flowers that can 

contest 
The splendor of the hues upon his breast — 
Who beareth up the incense of the year. 

— E. Thomas. 

When we turn away from some duty or 
some fellow-creature, saying that our hearts 
are too sick and sore with some great yearn- 
ing of our own, we may often sever the line 
on which a Divine message was coming to 
us. We shut out the man, and we shut out 
the angel who had sent him on to open the 
door . . . There is a plan working in our lives; 
and if we keep our hearts quiet and our eyes 
open, it all "works together;" and, if we 
don't, it all fights together, and goes on 
fighting till it comes right, somehow, some- 
where. ■ — Annie Keary. 



FOR EVERY DAY 



33 




IE when I may, I want 
it said of me, by those 
who knew me best, that 
I always plucked a 
thistle and planted a 
flower when I thought 



a flower would grow. 



— Lincoln, 



34 STRENGTH 

The man who cannot be strong, cheerful, 
creative, in his own age, would find all other 
ages inhospitable and barren. 

— Hamilton TV. Mabie. 

We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, 

not breaths ; 
In feelings, not in figures on a dial, 
We should count time by heart throbs. He 

most lives 
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the 

best. 

Everybody likes and respects self-made 
men. It is a great deal better to be made in 
that way than not at all. — Holmes. 

Discontent is want of self-reliance ; it is 
infirmity of will. — Emerson. 

It is no great matter to live lovingly with 
humble and meek persons, but he that can 
do so with the peevish and perverse — he 
hath true Charity, , — Jeremy Taylor. 



FOR EVERY DAY 



35 




T is indeed a desirable 
thing to be well descen- 
ded, but the glory be- 
longs to our ancestors. 

— Plutarch, 



36 STRENGTH 

To have what we want is riches ; but to 
be able to do without is power. 

— George Mac Donald. 



Never give a moment to complaint, but 
utilize the time that would otherwise be 
spent in this way, in looking forward and 
actualizing the conditions you desire. 

— Trine. 



Seek your life's nourishment in your 
life's work. — Phillips Brooks. 



Between the great things that we cannot 
do and the small things we will not do, the 
danger is that we shall do nothing. 

— Adolph Monod. 



Probably he who never made a mistake 
never made anything. — Samuel Smiles. 



FOR EVERY DAY 



37 




lO be honest, to be kind, 
to earn a little, and to 
spend a little less, to 
make upon the whole a 
family happier for his 
presence, to renounce 
when that shall be necessary and not 
to be embittered, to keep a few friends, 
but these without capitulation ; above 
all, on the same condition, to keep 
friends with himself: here is a task for 
all a man has of fortitude and delicacy. 

— Robert Louis Stevenson. 



38 STRENGTH 



There's nae power in Heaven or airth 
like love. It makes the weak strong and the 
dumb tae speak. — Ian Maclaren. 

Without distinction, without calculation, 
■without procrastination, love. Lavish it up- 
on the poor, where it is very easy; especially 
upon the rich, who often need it most ; most 
of all upon our equals, where it is very dif- 
ficult, and for whom perhaps we each do 
least of all. — Henry Drummond. 

And he who serves his brother best, 
Gets nearer God than all the rest. 

It is not written, blessed is he that feed- 
eth the poor, but he that considereth the 
poor. A little thought and a little kindness 
are often worth more than a great deal of 
money. — Ruskin. 

Put a seal upon your lips and forget 
what you have done. After you have been 
kind, after love hath stolen forth into the 
world and done its beautiful work, go back 
into the shade again and say nothing about 
it. 



FOR EVERY DAY 39 




HAT are you worth to- 
day? Not in money, 
but in brains, heart, pur- 
pose, character? Tell 
yourself the truth about 
yourself. 

— George H. Hepworth 



4 o STRENGTH 

There's no slipping up hill again, and 
no standing still, when once you've begun to 
slip down. — George Eliot. 

The test of sincerity is fruitfulness. 

— Canon Farrar. 

There is no virtue in solemn indifference. 
Joy is just as much a duty as beneficence is. 
Thankfulness is the other side of mercy. 

— Henry Van Dyke. 

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be 
much used till they are seasoned. 

— Holmes. 

Nothing is more significant of men's 
character than what they find laughable. 

— Goethe. 



Of all the lights you carry in your face, 
joy shines farthest out to sea. 



FOR EVERY DAY 



41 




k O live content with small 
means — to seek elegance 
rather than luxury, and 
refinement rather than 
fashion, to be worthy, 
not respectable, and 
wealthy, not rich — to study hard, think 
quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to 
listen to stars and birds, babes and 
sages, with open heart — to bear all 
cheerfully — do all bravely, await oc- 
casions — never hurry; in a word, to let 
the spiritual, unbidden and uncon- 
scious, grow up through the common. 
This is to be my symphony. 

— JV. E. Channing. 



42 STRENGTH 

Go often to the house of thy friend; for 
weeds soon choke up the unused path. 

— Scandinavian proverb. 

Thy friends thou hast and their adoption 

tried, 
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; 
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment 
Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. 

— Shakespeare. 

They who love best need friendship most ; 

Hearts only thrive on varied good ; 
And he who gathers from a host 

Of friendly hearts his daily food, 
Is the best friend that we can boast. 

—J. G. Holland. 

Is thy friend angry with thee ? Then 
provide him an opportunity of showing thee 
a great favor. Over that his heart must needs 
melt, and he will love thee again. 

— Richter. 

Live not without a friend : the Alpine rock 

must own 
Its mossy grace or else be nothing but a 

stone. — W. W. Story. 



FOR EVERY DAY 43 

Worship God by doing good, 
Works, not words ; kind acts, not creeds ! 
He who loves God as he should 
Makes his heart's love understood by kind 
deeds. 

I cannot think but that the world would 
be better and brighter if our teachers would 
dwell on the Duty of Happiness as well as 
the Happiness of Duty. — J. Lubbock. 

How many simple ways there are to 
bless. — Lowell. 

A little thing, a sunny smile, 

A loving word at morn. 

And all day long the day shone bright, 
The cares of life were made more light, 

And sweetest hopes were born. 

There is only one way to get ready for 
immortality, and that is to love this life, and 
live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully 
as we can. — Henry Van Dyke. 



44 STRENGTH 



All truth is from God, as all light is from 
the sun. . . All truth that bears on the cul- 
ture of the human soul, the development of 
human life, is part of the unfolding revelation 
of the divine. So when we catch glimpses, 
intimations, ideals, of those things that are 
finer and better than have ever yet been 
incarnated in the life of the race, we are 
anticipating that which is to be written on 
those new leaves of God's book, to be clearly 
read when they shall be turned, in his ever 
progressive, always advancing, and never 
completed Bible. 



FOR EVERY DAY 



45 



HERE are two good 
rules which ought to be 
written on every heart: 
Never believe anything 
bad about anybody un- 
less you positively know 
it is true ; never tell even that, unless 
you feel that it is absolutely necessary, 
and that God is listening while you 
tell it. 




— Henry Van Dyke. 



46 STRENGTH 

Hundreds can talk to one who can think; 
thousands can think to one who can see. 

— Ruskin. 

To widen your life without deepening it 
is only to weaken it. 

Not every one who has the gift of speech 
understands the value of silence. 

— S a hat or. 

It is better to kno less than to kno much 
that ain't so. — Josh Billings. 

Be humble or you'll stumble. 

— D. L. Moody. 

He who, having lost one ideal, refuses 
to give his heart and soul to another and a 
nobler, is like a man who declines to build a 
house on the rock, because the wind and 
rain have ruined his house on the sand. 



FOR EVERY DAY 47 

Esteem not thyself better than others, 
lest perhaps thou be accounted worse in the 
sight of God, who knows what is in man. 

To see without envy the glory of a rival 
shows a worthy man ; to rejoice in it, a good 
heart ; but to contribute to it, a noble soul. 

Men should bear with each other. There 
lives not the man who may not be cut up, 
aye, lashed to pieces, on his weakest side. 

— John Keats. 

Ask yourself what you would have been 
if you had never been tempted and own what 
a blessed thing the educating power of temp- 
tation is. — Phillips Brooks. 

Taking trouble is the best way of avoid- 
ing troubles. The lack of taking trouble has 
been the means of making trouble in many 
lives. 



48 STRENGTH 



If there be no nobility of descent, all the 
more indispensable is it that there should be 
nobility of ascent, — a character in them that 
bear rule so fine and high and pure that as 
men come within the circle of its influence 
they involuntarily pay homage to that which 
is the one pre-eminent distinction, the royal- 
ty of virtue. — Bishop Henry C. Potter. 



FOR EVERY DAY 



49 



Let me to-day do something that shall take 
A little sadness from the world's vast store, 

And may I be so favored as to make 
Of joy's too scanty sum, a little more. 

—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 



50 STRENGTH 



Adversity is sometimes hard upon a 
man ; but for one man who can stand pros- 
perity there are a hundred that will stand 
adversity. — Thomas Carlyle. 



The little worries which we meet each day 
May lie as stumbling-blocks across our way, 
Or we may make them stepping-stones to be 
Of grace, O Lord, to Thee. 

— Anna E. Hamilton, 



Prosperity is the blessing of the Old 
Testament ; adversity is the blessing of the 
New. 

Prosperity is not without many fears and 
distastes ; and adversity is not without com- 
forts and hopes. — Bacon. 



If money be not thy servant, it will be 
thy master. The covetous man can not so 
properly be said to possess wealth, as that 
may be said to possess him. — Bacon. 



FOR EVERY DAY 5* 



If your name is to live at all, it is so much 
more to have it live in people's hearts than 
only in their brains. I don't know that one's 
eyes fill with tears when he thinks of the 
famous inventor of logarithms. — Holmes, 



52 STRENGTH 



Hearts only thrive on varied good ; 

And he who gathers from a host 
Of friendly hearts his daily food, 

Is the best friend that we can boast. 

—J. G. Holland. 



We should pray with as much earnest- 
ness as those who expect everything from 
God ; we should act with as much energy as 
those who expect everything from them- 
selves. — Co/ton. 



Many have puzzled themselves about 
the origin of evil. I am content to observe 
that there is evil, and that there is a way to 
escape from it ; and with this I begin and 
end. — 'John Newton. 



Only be steadfast, never waver, 
Nor seek earth's favor, 

But rest ; 
Thou knowest what God wills must be 
For all his creatures, so for thee 

The best. 

— Paul Fleming. 



FOR EVERYDAY 53 



The secret of success consists not in the 
habit of making numerous resolutions about 
various faults and sins, but in one great, 
absorbing, controlling purpose to serve God 
and do His will ! If this be the controlling 
motive of life, all other motives will be swept 
into the force of its mighty current and 
guided aright. 



54 STRENGTH 



Love is not getting, but giving; not a 
wild dream of pleasure, and a . madness of 
desire — oh, no, love is not that — it is good- 
ness and honor, and peace and pure living — 
yes, love is that ; and it is the best thing in 
the world, and the thing that lives longest. 

— Henry Van Dyke. 

If any little word of ours can make one life 

the brighter ; 
If any little song of ours can make one heart 

the lighter; 
God help us speak that little word, and take 

our bit of singing, 
And drop it in some lonely vale, and set the 

echoes ringing. 

The first thing a kindness deserves is 
acceptance, the second, transmission. 

— George MacDonald. 

Every life is meant 
To help all lives; each man should live 
For all men's bettejrment. 

— Alice Cary. 

The springs of life are all from below. 

— Trine. 



FOR EVERY DAY 55 



To err is human, to forgive divine. 



■Pope. 



56 STRENGTH 



We have need of patience with ourselves 
and with others ; with those below, and 
those above us, and with our own equals ; 
with those who love us and those who love 
us not ; for the greatest things and for the 
least ; against sudden inroads of trouble, and 
under our daily burdens; disappointments 
as to the weather ; or the breaking of the 
heart ; in the weariness of the body, or the 
wearing of the soul ; in our own failure of 
duty, or others' failure toward us ; in every- 
day wants, or in the aching of sickness or 
the decay of age ; in disappointment, be- 
reavement, losses, injuries, reproaches ; in 
heaviness of the heart, or its sickness amid 
delayed hopes. In all these things, from 
childhood's little troubles to the martyr's 
sufferings, patience is the grace of God, 
whereby we endure evil for the love of God. 

— E. B. Pusey, 



FOR EVERY DAY 57 



Choose a book as you would choose a 
friend. 



58 STRENGTH 



There shall never be one lost good ! What 
was, shall live as before ; 
The evil is null, is nought, is silence im- 
plying sound ; 
What was good shall be good, with for evil 
so much good more ; 
On the earth the broken arcs ; in the 
heaven, a perfect round. 

— Robert Browning. 



FOR EVERY DAY 59 



He that cannot think, is a fool ; 
He that will not, is a bigot; 
He that dare not, is a slave. 

Inscription on the wall of Andrew Carnegie' s 
Library. 



60 STRENGTH 

If we accept the simple and unadulter- 
ated gospel of a Father's love, and it makes 
us fit to live and ready to die, we do well to 
leave that gospel to our children as a valu- 
able and sacred inheritance. 

Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, 
But cheerly seek how to redress their harms. 
What though the mast be now blown over- 
board, 
The cable broke, the holding anchor lost, 
And half our sailors swallowed in the flood — 
Yet lives our Pilot still. — Shakespeare. 

In the morning of life, work; in the mid- 
day, give counsel ; in the evening, pray. 

Remember this — that very little is need- 
ed to make a happy life. — Marcus Aurelius. 

Just to fill the hour — that is happiness. 

— Emerson. 



FOR EVERY DAY 61 



It is by doing our duty that we learn to 
do it. So long as men dispute whether or 
no a thing is their duty, they get never the 
nearer. Let them set ever so weakly about 
doing it, and the face of things alters. They 
find in themselves strength which they knew 
not of. 

— £. B. Pusey. 



62 STRENGTH 

That best portion of a good man' s life, 
His little, nameless, unremembered acts 
Of kindness and of love. — Wordsworth. 



Maintain a holy simplicity of mind, and 
do not smother yourself with a host of cares, 
wishes, or longings, under any pretext. 

— Francis de Sales. 



Labor to keep alive in your breast that 
little spark of celestial fire called Conscience. 

— George Washington. 



A Persian philosopher being asked by 
what method he had acquired so much know- 
ledge, answered, " By not being prevented 
by shame from asking questions when I was 
ignorant." 



FOR EVERY DAY 63 



But evil is wrought by want of thought, 
As well as want of heart. — Thomas Hood. 



64 STRENGTH 



A friend may well be reckoned a master- 
piece of nature. 



If I knew you and you knew me; if both of 

us could clearly see, 
And with an inner sight divine the meaning 

of your heart and mine, 
I'm sure that we would differ less and clasp 

our hands in friendliness, 
Our thoughts would pleasantly agree if I 

knew you and you knew me. 

Nixon Waterman. 



FOREVERYDAY 65 




HATSOEVER things 
are true, whatsoever 
things are honest, what- 
soever things are just, 
whatsoever things are 
pure, whatsoever things 
are lovely, whatsoever things are of 
good report; if there be any virtue, and 
if there be any praise, think on these 
things. 

— Paul. 



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Stay, stay at home, my heart, and rest; 

Home-keeping hearts are happiest; 

For they that wander, they know not where, 

Are full of trouble, and full of care ; 

To stay at home is best. — Longfellow. 



If you will not hear reason, she'll surely 
rap your knuckles. 



Liberality consists rather in giving 
reasonably than much. — La Bruyere. 



It matters not what fate may give ; 
The best is thine — to nobly live. 

— J. Buckham. 



Hoarding always brings loss in one form 
or another. 
Using, wisely using, brings an ever-renewing 
gain, — Trine. 



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67 




endeavour 
amends to 
thereunto. 



HOLD every man a 

debtor to his profession ; 

from the which as men of 

course do seek to receive 

countenance and profit, 

so ought they of duty to 

themselves by way of 

be a help and ornament 

— Bacon, 



68 STRENGTH 

To live in hearts we leave behind is not 
to die. — T. Campbell. 



All the joy which does not fade is that 
which grows from self-sacrifice. 

—A. H. Bradford. 



It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that 
the thought of a man's death hallows him 
anew to us ; as if life were not sacred too — 
as if it were comparatively a light thing to 
fail in love and reverence to the brother who 
has to climb the whole toilsome steep with 
us, and all our tears and tenderness were 
due to the one who is spared that hard 
journey. — George Eliot. 



No man is born into the world whose 
work is not born with him. — Lowell. 



FOR EVERY DAY 



69 




jERE you stand at the 
parting of the ways; 
some road you are to 
take; and as you stand 
here, consider and know 
how it is that you intend 
to live. Carry no bad habits, no cor- 
rupting associations, no enmities and 
strifes into this New Year. Leave 
these behind, and let the dead Past 
bury its dead ; leave them behind, and 
thank God that you are able to leave 
them. 



■Epbraim Peabody. 



70 STRENGTH 

God has so arranged the chronometry of 
our spirits, that there shall be thousands of 
silent moments between the striking hours. 

— Martineau. 

Why are we so impatient of delay, 
Longing forever for the time to be ? 

For thus we live to-morrow in to-day, 
Yea, sad to-morrows we may never see. 

—P. Gary, 

If thou wilt fill thy brain with Boston 
and New York, with fashion and covetous- 
ness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses 
with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find 
no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste 
of the pine-woods. 

— Emerson. 



It is the mind that makes the man, and 
our vigour is in our immortal soul. 

—Ovid. 



FOR EVERY DAY 



7i 




UILD a little fence of 

trust around to-day, 

Fill the space with loving 

works and therein stay; 

Look not through the 

sheltering bars upon 

to-morrow ; 

God will help thee bear what comes 



of joy or sorrow. 



-Mary Butts. 



72 STRENGTH 



We are our own fates. Our own deeds 
Are our doomsmen. Man's life was made 
Not for men's creeds, but men's actions. 

— Owen Meredith, 



Ever judge of men by their professions. 
For though the bright moment of promising 
is but a moment, and cannot be prolonged, 
yet if sincere in its moment's extravagant 
goodness, why, trust it, and know the man 
by it, I say — not by his performance ; which 
is half the world's work, interfere as the 
world needs must with its accidents and 
circumstances : the profession was purely 
the man's own. I judge people by what they 
might be — not are, nor will be. 

— Robert Browning. 



Experience shows that success is due 
less to ability than to zeal. The winner is 
he who gives himself to his work, body and 
soul. — Charles Buxton. 



He that would have the fruit must climb 
the tree. 




FOR EVERY DAY 73 



WTil^^ ET the weakest > let the 

> humblest remember, 
that in his daily course 
he can, if he will, shed 
around him almost a 
heaven. Kindly words, 
sympathizing attentions, watchfulness 
against wounding men's sensitive- 
ness—these cost very little, but they 
are priceless in their value. Are they 
not almost the staple of our daily hap- 
piness? From hour to hour, from 
moment to moment, we are supported, 
blest, by small kindnesses. 

— F. W. Robertson. 



74 STRENGTH 

There is always hope in a man that 
actually and earnestly works. In idleness 
alone is there perpetual despair. 

— Thomas Carlyle. 



The sweetness around us will sweeten labor 
If we will but let it have its way. 

— Mary E. Wilkins. 



And he gave it for his opinion, that who- 
ever could make two ears of corn, or two 
blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground 
where only one grew before, would deserve 
better of mankind, and do more essential 
service to his country, than the whole race 
of politicians put together. — Swift. 



Nothing great was ever achieved with- 
out enthusiasm. — Emerson. 



FOR EVERY DAY 



75 



fj^rjOU find yourself refresh - 
| ed by the presence of 
cheerful people. Why 
not make earnest effort 
3jy to confer that pleasure 
on others! You will 
find half the battle is gained if you 
never allow yourself to say anything 
gloomy. 

— L. M. Child. 




76 STRENGTH 



Let not another's disobedience to Nature 
become an ill to you ; for you were not born 
to be depressed and unhappy with others, 
but to be happy with them. And if any is 
unhappy, remember that he is so for him- 
self; for God made all men to enjoy felicity 
and peace. — Epictetus. 



Whichever way the wind doth blow 
Some heart is glad to have it so ; 
Then blow it east or blow it west, 
The wind that blows that wind is best. 

— C. A. Mason. 



Why shouldst thou fill to-day with sorrow 

About to-morrow, 

My heart ? 
One watches all with care most true, 
Doubt not that He will give thee, too, 

Thy part. 

— Paul Fleming. 



And God, who studies each separate soul, 
Out of commonplace lives makes his beauti- 
ful whole. — Susan Coolidge. 



FOR EVERY DAY 77 




HEY are gladdening 
souls who mean exactly 
what they say and ex- 
pect you to say exactly 
what you mean. 

— Elizabeth Sheppard. 



78 STRENGTH 

I do not know what I may appear to the 
world ; but to myself I seem to have been 
only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and 
diverting myself in now and then finding a 
smoother pebble or a prettier shell than 
ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay 
all undiscovered before me. —Newton. 

We meet at one gate 

When all's over. The ways tney are many 

and wide, 
And seldom are two ways the same. 
Side by side may we stand at the same little 

door when all's done ! 
The ways they are many, the end it is one. 

■ — Owen Meredith. 

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind 
to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth 
men's minds about to religion. — Bacon. 

Minds that have nothing to confer find 
little to perceive. 



FOR EVERY DAY 



79 




HE first hour of the 
morning is the rudder 
of the day. 

— Beecher. 



80 STRENGTH 

He who reigns within himself, and rules 
passions, desires, and fears, is more than a 
king. — Milton. 



When is man strong until he feels alone ? 

— Robert Browning. 



What stronger breastplate than a heart 

untainted ? 
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel 

just; 
And he but naked, though locked up in steel, 
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. 

— Shakespeare. 



Dare to be true : nothing can need a lie ; 
A fault which needs it most, grows two 
thereby. — George Herbert. 



FOR EVERY DAY 81 



Folded hands are ever weary, 
Selfish hearts are never gay ; 

Life for thee hath many duties, 
Active be, then, while you may. 

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to 
be conscious of none. — Thomas Carlyle, 

I have never united myself to any church, 
because I have found difficulty in giving my 
assent, without mental reservation, to the 
long complicated statements of Christian 
doctrine which characterize their Articles of 
Belief and Confession of Faith. Whenever 
any church will inscribe over its altar, as its 
sole qualification for membership, the Sav- 
ior's condensed statement of the substance 
of both law and gospel, "Thou shalt love the 
Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with 
all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and thy 
neighbor as thyself," that church will I join 
with all my heart and all my soul. 

— Lincoln. 

Never esteem anything as of advantage 
to thee that shall make thee break thy word 
or lose thy self-respect. — Marcus Jurelius. 



82 STRENGTH 

Dare to look up to God and say, "Make 
use of me for the future as Thou wilt. I am 
of the same mind ; I am one with Thee. I 
refuse nothing which seems good to Thee. 
Lead me whither Thou wilt. Clothe me in 
whatever dress Thou wilt." — Epictetus. 



Great men are they who see that spirit- 
ual is stronger than any material force ; that 
thoughts rule the world. — Emerson, 



For right is right, since God is God, 
And right the day must win ; 

To doubt would be disloyalty, 
To falter would be sin. 

— F. W. Faber. 



Do to-day thy nearest duty. — Goethe. 



FOR EVERY DAY 83 



Every thought and word and deed, of 
every human being, is followed by its inevit- 
able consequence : for the one we are re- 
sponsible ; with the other we have nothing 
to do. — Gail Hamilton. 



84 STRENGTH 

The truest self-respect is not to think of 
self. — Beech er. 



Nothing is ever done beautifully, which 
is done in rivalship; nor nobly, which is done 
in pride. — -Ruskin. 



He jests at scars that never felt a wound. 

— Shakespeare. 



Life is not so short but that there is 
always time enough for courtesy. 

— Emerson. 



The best fire doesna flare up the soonest. 

— George Eliot. 



FOR EVERY DAY 85 



One example is worth a thousand argu- 
ments. — Gladstone. 



86 STRENGTH 

Now is the time ; ah, friend, no longer wait 
To scatter loving smiles and words of cheer 
To those around whose lives are now so dear. 
They may not meet you in the coming year. 
Now is the time. 



As one lamp lights another nor grows less, 
So nobleness enkindleth nobleness. 

— Lowell. 



Give love, and love to your heart will flow, 
A strength in your utmost need ; 

Have faith, and a score of hearts will show 
Their faith injj/^rwork and deed. 



Guard within yourself that treasure, 
kindness. Know how to give without hes- 
itation, how to lose without regret, how to 
acquire without meanness. 

— George Sand. 



FOR EVERY DAY 87 



No one is so accursed by fate, 
No one so utterly desolate, 

But some heart, though unknown, 

Responds unto his own. 

— Longfellow. 



Seek not to pour the world into thy little 
mould, 

Each as its nature is, its being must unfold; 

Thou art but as a string in life's vast sound- 
ing board, 

And other strings as sweet will not with 
thine accord. — W. W. Story. 



Be strong to hope, O Heart ! 

Though day is bright, 
The stars can only shine 

In the dark night. 
Be strong, O heart of mine ; 

Look towards the light. 

— A. Procter. 



Each day the world is born anew 
For him who takes it rightly. 

— Lowell. 



88 STRENGTH 



And only the Master shall praise us, 
And only the Master shall blame, 
And no one shall work for money, 
And no one shall work for fame : 
But each for the joy of the working and each 

in his separate star 
Shall draw the Thing as he sees it for the 
God of things as they are. 

— Rudyard Kipling. 



FOR EVERY DAY 89 

In the man whose childhood has known 
caresses there lies a fiber of memory, which 
can be touched to nobler issues. 

— George Eliot. 

The good of human life cannot lie in the 
possession of things which for one man to 
possess is for the rest to lose, but rather in 
things which all can possess alike, and 
where one man's wealth promotes his 
neighbor's. — B. Spinoza. 



We cannot live among men, suspicious 
of our own interest and fighting for our own 
hand, without doing dishonor and hurt to our 
own nature. — Black. 



We are members of one great body. 
Nature planted in us a mutual love, and 
fitted us for a social life. We must consider 
that we were born for the good of the whole. 

— Senecca. 



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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne; 
For a man by nothing is so well bewrayed 
As by his manners. — Spenser, 

Everything that is mine, even to my 
life, I may give to one I love, but the secret 
of my friend is not mine to give. 

— Philip Sidney. 

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; 
Small sands the mountain, moments make 

the year, 
And trifles life. — Edward Young. 

Speak gently ! 't is a little thing 
Dropp'd in the heart's deep well; 

The good, the joy, that it may bring, 
Eternity shall tell. 

— G. W, Lang ford. 

O Lord, that lends me life, lend me a 
heart replete with thankfulness. 

— Shakespeare. 



FOR EVERY DAY 91 



I think that good must come of good, 
And ill of evil — surely unto all 
In every place or time, seeing sweet fruit 
Groweth from wholesome roots, or bitter 

things 
From poison stocks : yea, seeing, too, how 

spite 
Breeds hate — and kindness friends — or 

patience 
Peace. 

— Edwin Arnold. 



92 STRENGTH 



Truth forever on the scaffold ; Wrong for- 
ever on the throne ; 

Yet that scaffold sways the future and be- 
yond the dim unknown 

Standeth God within the shadow, keeping 
watch above his own. 

— Lowell, 

So many plans, so many creeds, 
So many paths that wind and wind, 
When just the art of being kind 
Is all this sad world needs. 

The world goes up and the world goes down, 
And the sunshine follows the rain ; 

And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown 
Can never come again. 

— Kingsley. 

But noble souls through dust and heat 
Rise from disaster and defeat 
The stronger. 

— Longfellow. 

Her voice was ever soft, 
Gentle, and low — an excellent thing in 
woman. — Shakespeare. 

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools 
will learn in no other, and scarce in that. 



FOR EVERY DAY 93 

I am quite sure that one secret of youth 
is to keep up with determined and steady- 
hand, one's own tone, to avoid ruts and 
narrowing circles. — F. W. Ware. 

Repose we may possess even in the 
most arduous toil ; ease we can never have 
while we are surrounded by conditions 
which are hostile to our highest life. 

— Hamilton TV. Mabie. 

This above all — to thine own self be true, 
and it must follow, as the night the day, 
thou canst not then be false to any man. 

— Shakespeare. 

It is 'well to think well ; it is divine to 
act well. — Horace Mann. 

Let us pride ourselves on thinking high 
thoughts, achieving great deeds, living good 
lives. — J. K. Jerome. 



94 STRENGTH 



It is not what a man gets, but what a 
man is, that he should think of. He should 
first think of his character, and then of his 
condition. He that has character need have 
no fears about his condition. Character will 
draw after it condition. — Beech er. 



FOREVERYDAY 95 



Now don't go off half-cocked ; folks never 

gains 
By usin' pepper sarse instid o' brains. 

— Lowell. 



Whatever your present self may be, 
resolve with all your strength never to 
degenerate thence. — Bronte. 



We must not take the faults of our youth 
into our old age ; for old age brings with it 
its own faults. — Goethe. 



If one life shines, the next life to it must 
catch the light. It is the infection of excel- 
lence. — A. D. T. Whitney. 



Good deeds ring clear through heaven 
like a bell. — Dickens. 



The man who has begun to live more 
seriously within begins to live more simply 
without. — Phillips Brooks. 



96 STRENGTH 

Little things done well make a great soul, 
and small duties are always great duties in 
the sight of the angels. — Hepworth. 

There is not an angel added to the Host 
of Heaven but does its blessed work on earth 
in those that loved it here. — Dickens. 

It's well we should feel as life's a reck- 
oning we can't make twice over; there's no 
real making amends in this world any more 
nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by 
doing your addition right. — George Eliot. 

If for the age to come, this hour 

Of trial hath vicarious power, 

And blessed by Thee, our present pain 

Be Liberty's eternal gain; 

Thy will be done. — Whittier, 

A heart that is soonest awake to the flowers 
Is always the first to be touched by the 
thorns. 



FOR EVERY DAY 97 



For a man to grow a gentleman, it is of 
great consequence that his grandfather should 
have been an honest man ; but if a man be a 
gentleman, it matters little what his grand- 
father, or grandmother either, was. 

— George MacDonald. 



98 STRENGTH 



The Recessional 

God of our fathers, known of old, 
Lord of our far-flung battle line, 

Beneath whose awful hand we hold 
Dominion over palm and pine, 

Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, 

Lest we forget — lest we forget ! 

The tumult and the shouting dies, 

The Captains and the Kings depart, 

Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, 
A humble and a contrite heart. 

Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, 

Lest we forget — lest we forget ! 



FOR EVERY DAY 99 

Far-called, our navies melt away, 

On dune and headland sinks the fire, 

Lo, all our pomp of yesterday 

Is one with Nineveh and Tyre ! 

Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, 

Lest we forget — lest we forget ! 



If, drunk with sight of power, we loose 
Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe> 

Such boasting as the Gentiles use, 

Or lesser breeds without the Law, 

Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, 

Lest we forget — lest we forget ! 



For heathen heart that puts her trust 

In reeking tube and iron shard, 
All valiant dust that builds on dust, 

And guarding calls not Thee to guard, 
For frantic boast and foolish word, 
Thy Mercy on Thy People, Lord ! 

— Amen 
— Rudyard Kipling. 
L.ofC. 



ioo STRENGTH 

As a tired mother when the day is o'er, 
Leads by the hand her little child to bed, 

Half willing, half reluctant to be led, 
And leaves his broken playthings on the floor 
Still gazing at them through the open door, 

Nor wholly reassured and comforted 

By promises of others in their stead, 
Which though more splendid, may not please 

him more ; 
So nature deals with us and takes away 

Our playthings one by one, and by 
the hand 

Leads us to rest so gently that we go 
Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, 

Being too full of sleep to understand 

How far the unknown transcends the 
what we know. — Longfellow. 



Reflect upon your present blessings, of 
which every man has many; not on your 
past misfortunes, of which all men have 
some. — Dickens. 



FOR EVERY DAY 101 

The heights by great men reached and kept 
Were not attained by sudden flight, 

But they while their companions slept 
Were toiling upward in the night. 

— Longfellow, 



If we work upon marble, it will perish ; 
if we work upon brass, time will efface it ; if 
we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; 
but if we work upon immortal souls, if we 
imbue them with principles, with the just 
fear of God and love of fellow men, we 
engrave on those tablets something which 
will brighten all eternity. 

— Daniel Webster, 



In this world it is not what we take up, 
but what we give up, that makes us rich. 

— Beecher. 



102 STRENGTH 



The Poet's Prayer 

If there be some weaker one, 
Give me strength to help him on; 
If a blinder soul there be, 
Let me guide him nearer Thee ; 
Make my mortal dreams come true 
With the work I fain would do ; 
Clothe with life the weak intent, 
Let me be the thing I meant ; 
Let me find in Thy employ, 
Peace that dearer is than joy ; 
Out of self to love be led, 
And to Heaven acclimated, 
Until all things sweet and good 
Seem my natural habitude. 

— Whittier. 



FOR EVERY DAY 103 

God has a few of us whom He whispers 
in the ear ; 
The rest may reason and welcome : 'tis we 
musicians know, — Robert Browning. 



Do not think it wasted time to submit 
yourselves to any influence which may bring 
upon you any noble feeling. — Ruskin. 



Religion is the best armor in the world ; 
but the worst cloak. — Bunyan. 



Beyond all doing of good is the being 
good ; for he that is good not only does good 
things, but all that he does is good. 

— George Mac Donald. 



104 STRENGTH 



Happiness. 

The idea has been transmitted from 
generation to generation, that happiness is 
one large and beautiful stone, a single gem 
so rare that all search after it is vain, all 
effort for it hopeless. It is not so. Happi- 
ness is mosaic, composed of many smaller 
stones. Each taken apart and viewed singly 
may be of little value ; but when all are 
grouped together and judiciously combined 
and set, they form a pleasing and graceful 
whole — a costly jewel. Trample not under 
feet, then, the little pleasures which a 
gracious Providence scatters in the daily 
path, and which, in eager search after some 
great and exciting joy, we are apt to over- 
look. "Why should we always keep our eyes 
fixed on the bright, distant horizon, while 
there are so many lovely roses in the garden 
in which we are permitted to walk ? The 
very ardor of our chase after happiness may 
be the reason that she so often eludes our 
grasp. 



FOR EVERY DAY 105 

If you and I — just you and I — 
Should laugh instead of worry ; 
If we should grow — just you and I — 
Kinder and sweeter hearted, 
Perhaps in some near by and by 
A good time might get started ; 
Then what a happy world 'twould be 
For you and me — for you and me! 

The books which help us most are those 
which make us think the most. The hardest 
way of learning is by easy reading ; but a 
great book that comes from a great thinker, 
is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth 
and with beauty. — Parker, 

What I kept I have lost ; what I gave 
away I have. 

— Dying words of Croesus, the rich king. 

Too low they build who build beneath 
the stars. — Edward Young, 



io6 STRENGTH 



Let us hope that sometime we may stop 
and make deliberate choice of a sweeter, 
quieter, friendlier life, and by cutting down 
our social tasks and intellectual recreations, 
make time for rest and domesticity, and for 
remembrance of others whose houses and 
lives adjoin our own. 



FOR EVERY DAY 107 



An Ideal 

I know of no more encouraging fact than 
the unquestionable ability of a man to elevate 
his life by a conscious endeavor. It is some- 
thing to be able to paint a particular picture, 
or to carve a statue, and so make a few 
objects beautiful ; but it is far more glorious 
to carve and paint the very atmosphere and 
medium through which we look, which mor- 
ally we can do. — Thoreau. 



io8 STRENGTH 



Ring out the old, ring in the new, 
Ring, happy bells, across the snow; 
'The year is going, let him go ; 

Ring out the false, ring in the true. 

— Tennyson. 



INDEX 

Page 

Arnold, Edwin gi 

Aurelius, Marcus 24, 31, 60, 81 

Batchelor, G 17 

Bacon 50, 67, 78 

Beecher . . . .22, 24, 26, 28, 79, 84, 94, 101 

Black 10, 25, 89 

Browning, E. B 10, 17 

Browning, Robert 19, 58, 72, 80, 103 

Brooks, Phillips 11,36,47,95 

Bradford, A. H 68 

Bronte 95 

Billings, Josh . . . . . . . 26, 46 

Bulwer, (Lord Lytton) 24 

Bunyan 25, 30, 103 

Buckham, J 66 

Butts, Mary 71 

Buxton, Charles 72 

Carlyle, Thomas . . * . . . 18, 50, 74, 81 

Carey, P 19, 70 

Cary, Alice . 54 

Carnegie, Andrew -59 

Campbell, T 68 

Chalmers 10 

Channing, W. E 41 

Child, L. M 75 

Coolidge, Susan 76 

Colton 5 2 

Croesus 105 

Dickens 28, 95, 96, 100 

Drummond, Henry 10, 38 

Eliot, George . . . . 21, 23, 40, 68, 84, 89, 96 
Emerson . . 23, 24, 25, 29, 34, 60, 70, 74, 82, 84 
Epictetus 26, 76, 82 



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Page 

Faber, F. W. 82 

Farrar, Canon ax, 40 

Fields, J. T. . 24 

Fleming, Paul . . . . . . . 52, 76 

Fuller, T 29 

Gladstone e 85 

Goethe 40, 82, 95 

Griggs, Edward Howard 7 

Hale, Edward Everett 12 

Havergal, Frances Ridley ..... 23 

Haliburton .,._..... 26 

Hamilton, Gail . 30, 83 

Hamilton, Anna E. . 50 

Hegeman, A. B. 

Hepworth, George H. . . . . . . 3g, 96 

Herbert, George 80 

Holmes 30, 34, 40, 51 

Holland, J. G 42, 52 

Hood, Thomas 63 

Ingelow, Jean , 20 

Jerome, J. K. .13,21,93 

Johnson, Dr. f ....... 12 

Keary, Annie 32 

Keats, John 47 

Kipling, Rudyard 88, 98, 99 

Kingsley 92 

Larcom, Lucy 20 

Langford, G. W. .90 

La Bruyere 66 

Lincoln 9,11,33,81 

Lowell ... 11, 18, 29, 43, 68, 86, 87, 92, 95 

Lover, Samuel . . . . . . . .18 

Longfellow 66, 87, 92, 100, iox 



INDEX H3 



Page 

Lubbock, J 43 

Mabie, Hamilton W i 7, 34, 93 

MacDonald, George ... 28, 36, 54, 97, 103 

Maclaren, Ian . 38 

Martineau 7° 

Mason, C. A 76 

Mann, Horace 93 

Meredith, Owen . . . . . . . 72, 78 

Milton 80 

Miller, J. R 12 

Monod, Adolph 36 

Moody, D. L 46 

Newton 52, 7 8 

Ovid 70 

Payne, Thomas 21 

Paul 65 

Parker 105 

Penn, William . .... 18 

Peabody, Ephraim 6g 

Pilpay 12 

Plutarch 35 

Potter, Bishop Henry C. 4 8 

Pope 55 

Procter, A 87 

Pusey, E. B. . . . . • • . 56, 61 

Richter 42 

Robertson, F. W 73 

Roosevelt, Theodore n 

Ruskin . . . . 10, 12, 16, 2g, 38, 46, 84, 103 

Salvator 4 6 

Sand, George 86 

Sales, Francis de 62 

Schiller 22 



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Page 
Shakespeare . . 17, 1 9, 42, 60, 80, 84, 92, 93 

Sheppard, Elizabeth 77 

Sidney, Philip ....... go 

Senecca 89 

Smiles, Samuel ....... 36 

Spinoza, B. . ....... 89 

Spenser ........ 90 

Stevenson, Robert Louis ..... 37 

Story, W. W 42, 87 

Swift 74 

Syrus, Publius 29, 31 

Taylor, Jeremy 34 

Tennyson, ..;..... 108 

Thoreau ........ 30, 107 

Thomas, E 32 

Tourgueneff, Ivan 14 

Trine 36, 54, 66 

Tupper, M. F 31 

Van Dyke, Henry .... 17, 40, 43, 45, 54 

Ward, Artemus 11 

Washington . . . . . . .62 

Waterman, Nixon ...... 64 

Ware, F. W 93 

Webster, Daniel 101 

Whitney, A. D. T 95 

Whittier ....... 96, 102 

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler 49 

Wilkins, Mary E 74 

Wordsworth 62 

Young, Edward . . . . . 31, 90, 105 



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